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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saturn imaged at 23:02 UT on 26 September 2026. 12" Meade LX-200, Player One Uranus-C camera. #Astrophotography

Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am considering installing solar panels. Fortunately I have a 3D model of my house available to experiment with options.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've just been out along my roof ridge to clean off some untidy excess mortar. Now feeling pretty saddle sore.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With a mix of old and new equipment I've set up a basic music studio in my attic. I've had the bass guitar and hi-fi amp for close to 40 years. The speakers are relatively new (30 years).

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just ordered my first 6-string guitar, so I'll likely become an inept guitarist as well as being an inept bassist.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seeing some interesting clouds this evening - wondering if they are asperitas clouds.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I thought it might be a good time to replace my bass strings, as the ones currently on there are now 45 years old.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I took a quick look at #Saturn last night. Conditions were very good but technical issues prevented me from any proper imaging captures.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Portrait of the Sun moments before the 12 August eclipse.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An improved version of my 12 August solar eclipse footage. Northwich, UK.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A couple of solar eclipse shots. Northwich, UK.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm unsure how badly Bluesky mangles movies, but here's a quick time-lapse of today's solar eclipse, as seen from Northwich, UK.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I modified my binoculars for solar use, in preparation for the eclipse on 12 August.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some photo restorations require multiple strategies. I don't like giving up.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Belize beauty contest from around 1978. This photo restoration involved an intricate nose job. Crop of a larger image.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Doing some photo restorations from old scans for a friend. Belize school prom, 1994.

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Gary @gazz1815.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Steroid injections. Hopefully my fingers will stop locking up.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thrilled to chance upon the Utah Teapot while out in Dublin.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I can't render caustics without thinking of David Hockney. RIP.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

30th anniversary of the Manchester bomb. I would normally have been in shopping the city at that time, but was out of town near the airport. I first suspected something was happening on seeing several Hercules military aircraft coming in to land.

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Bride ran to find her groom after 1996 Manchester IRA bomb

BBC Radio Manchester's Joel Mitchell goes back into the archives to learn about the day the city changed forever.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

To mark the return of Rush to the world stage here's me (on bass) knocking out a rough cover in 1982.

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Freewill - Rush cover (excerpt)

Recorded around 1982.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

With my multimeter I finally diagnosed the boiler issue which had stumped three heating engineering companies. It was a rare microswitch fault in one of the zone valves. I'm no electrician but I know how to debug things: observe, hypothesize, test and repeat.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

RIP Dick Parry - Pink Floyd saxophonist. 😢🎷https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLhKJuGhK0

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A 400mm lens is a great way to check roof repairs.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I encountered this handsome gentleman while gardening today.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I've not seen these two friendly neighbours for two years. They are seeing their rebuilt home with a new floor-plan for the first time and are no doubt very confused.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Solar array wing camera view of the Moon (credit: @NASAArtemis). We produce some nice imagery in #StarCitizen, but sometimes reality is just next level.

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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I just saw this. Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman named a newly discovered moon crater after his late wife, Carroll, who died in 2020 following a 5-year battle with cancer. #ProudBlue #ArtemisII

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Stunning Artemis II launch shot. Photo credit: @AJamesMcCarthy on X.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Artemis service module separation was so pretty.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I decided to make some plots of my body mass over the last decade or so. 2024 was the year I "made an effort".

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Both of my Facebook birthday reminders today are for people no longer with us. Also a third friend of mine (my age) passed away this week, and the coming weekend sees me at a remembrance event for a fourth. Human mortality is very much on my mind right now. 😢

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What a great screenshot from @RobertsSpaceInd on X - the production quality really shows. I continue to work on the graphics technology for #StarCitizen and #Squadron42.

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